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- Personality traits and personal values represent individual differences that influence many forms of behavior including psychopathology (Hanel & Wolfradt, 2016; Jarden, 2010; Ozer & Benet-Martinez, 2006; Schwartz, 2006). Extensive research has highlighted the importance of personality traits in the development of psychopathology in children. However, the association between values and...
- Keyword:
- Personality Traits, Racial/Ethnic Differences, Values, Psychopathology, and Middle Childhood
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Avante Smack
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/13/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/13/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Past research suggests that stereotypes about collective identities (i.e. race, ethnicity, and gender) shape aspirations. However, less is known about how actual representation of collective identity relates to aspirations. The proportion of an identity in a given career will be used as an indicator of numeric representation and I hypothesize...
- Keyword:
- representation, collective identity, and aspirations
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Mesmin Destin, Regine Debrosse, and Tess Brieva
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/1/2019
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- Research has found that both schizophrenia populations and populations at clinical high risk for psychosis show alterations in facial affect expressivity, specifically blunting. However, it is unknown whether these alterations occur prior to onset, or whether they develop as a consequence of psychosis onset processes. The current study sought to...
- Keyword:
- Non-clinical psychosis, iMotions, positive symptoms, dampening, FACS, and facial expressivity
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Vijay A. Mittal, Tina Gupta, and Kimberly Rowghani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/1/2019
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- Research shows that psychometrically-assessed spatial abilities (e.g., spatial visualization and spatial orientation) can be improved through training, and that some training yields improvements that are transferable to novel contexts and tasks (Uttal et al., 2013). While the training of these spatial abilities may be valuable for some forms of STEM...
- Keyword:
- geospatial technology in classrooms and spatial thinking
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Emily Nicole Hollenbeck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- There has long been an interest in the idea of generativity the concern for and commitment towards promoting the well-being of future generations. In Western societies, generativity can be characterized through societal contributions and acts dedicated towards others. Since the early 1960s, when Erikson proposed generativity as the major developmental...
- Keyword:
- Agency, Life Story, Communion, Generativity, Well-being, and Narrative
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jen Guo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Students often change majors during college, and most workers change jobs throughout their careers. Yet the diverse opportunities for entering natural science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are often overlooked during college and beyond. This dissertation therefore analyzed four large nationally representative datasets to characterize the pathways for joining...
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- David Isaac Miller
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Memory systems research has established the importance of two distinct types of memory systems in the brain: explicit and implicit. While a robust literature exists on individual differences in the explicit domain (Chapter 3), research on individual differences in implicit learning remains relatively limited. The key question guiding the investigation...
- Keyword:
- Implicit Learning, Sequence Learning, and Individual Differences
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Kelsey Rachel Thompson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis focuses on the development of a cochlear implant (CI) that uses photons to stimulate surviving auditory neurons in severe-to-profoundly deaf individuals. The benefit of optical over electrical stimulation is its spatial selectivity with the potential to create significantly more independent channels to encode acoustic information and likely enhances...
- Subject:
- Audiology, Psychology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Xu, Yingyue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14587 and etdadmin_upload_660188
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- Women living with human immunodeficiency virus (WLWH) have unique health challenges. Understanding psychological strengths that help WLWH manage their disease and improve health outcomes could reduce disease burden. Although spirituality, a multidimensional construct that includes a search for meaning and purpose, connection with a higher dimension, and experiences and feelings...
- Keyword:
- biopsychology, HIV, women's health, spirituality, positive affect, and program development
- Subject:
- Social psychology, Health sciences, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Bassett, Sarah Margaret Ray
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14769 and etdadmin_upload_679594
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- Introduction: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a disorder of gut-brain interaction associated with reduced quality of life, increased rates of depression and anxiety, and high economic burden to society and the individual. Current behavioral interventions, which target well-known symptom exacerbating factors such as catastrophizing and gastrointestinal- specific anxiety, have demonstrated...
- Keyword:
- health psychology, IBS, Irritable bowel syndrome, gastrointestinal disorders, cognitive flexibility, and psychological flexibility
- Subject:
- Health sciences and Psychology
- Creator:
- Bedell, Alyse R
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14699 and etdadmin_upload_666937
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- Recent studies have begun to examine white matter connectivity aberrations in psychiatric populations, such as major depressive disorder. Several studies have found reduced white matter integrity (WMI) in depressed samples, though the location of this reduction is not clear. Incorporating symptom measures of depression severity and rumination may allow for...
- Keyword:
- rumination, women's health, depression, and white matter
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology, Psychology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Satyshur, Maureen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_676234 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14751
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- Description:
- The concealed information test (CIT) has garnered more empirical support than other methods of recognition detection and has a firm theoretical foundation. Because it occurs involuntarily, even when recognition is denied, P300 amplitude is a robust indictor of concealed information. Although the P300-based CIT shows great promise for field use,...
- Keyword:
- retroactive interference, bootstrapping, concealed information test, complex trial protocol, and P300-based concealed information test
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Ward, Anne Cable
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14417 and etdadmin_upload_619142
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- Sexual orientation is conventionally understood as relative attraction to men versus women. It has recently been argued that male sexual orientation in particular can be extended to include other dimensions of sexual attraction besides gender, such as sexual maturity and location. With respect to the dimension of location, most men...
- Keyword:
- sexual orientation, furries, erotic target identity inversions, adult baby/diaper lovers, paraphilias, and eunuchs
- Subject:
- Sexuality, Clinical psychology, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Hsu, Kevin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14573 and etdadmin_upload_658199
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- Young children can sometimes acquire new vocabulary words—even property terms—through indirect learning (e.g. Carey & Bartlett, 1978). We explore two factors that contribute to this ability—perceptual alignment and linguistic contrast. We propose that spontaneous comparison processes lead children to notice key commonalities and differences that facilitate indirect property word learning....
- Keyword:
- property words, linguistic contrast, alignment, and indirect word learning
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Developmental psychology, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Shao, Ruxue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_668558 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14711
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- Description:
- Rhythmic fluctuations of electrical activity in the brain provide insights into the proposed mechanism by which we encode experiences and then maintain, forget, modify, and retrieve them. Yet there is still much to learn about how neural oscillations relate to memory function. The purpose of this research is to discover...
- Keyword:
- EEG, Memory, Oscillation, Reactivation, Sleep, and Consolidation
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Psychology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Creery, Jessica Danielle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_615973 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14395
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- Description:
- Selective attention enables people to focus on a small number of objects, features, or events with good resolution. Sometimes attention may also be less selective and distributed across numerous items, which allows more information to be processed at a lower resolution. The degree to which attention is more or less...
- Keyword:
- analytic problem solving, problem solving, insight problem solving, creativity, and attention
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Ng, Tiffani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_685804 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14815
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- Description:
- Life stories are strong predictors of identity, since the specific narratives adults tell about themselves represent individual differences in personality characteristics. One way researchers analyze these life stories in adults is by measuring the story’s coherence, which is comprised of a clear context, a linear chronology, and an explanation of...
- Keyword:
- life story, development, identity, coherence, and personality
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Abigail Blum
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-05-15
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- We think data is definitive, but our perception of it contains bias from expectations and motivations. For example, when Democrats and Republicans view the same depiction of global temperature trends, Democrats see an increasing trend, while Republicans see overall flatness. Could prior beliefs bias our perception of relations depicted in...
- Keyword:
- scatterplot, belief, psychology, bias, correlation, data visualizations, and perception
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Chase Stokes, Steve Franconeri, and Cindy Xiong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-31
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Negative body image in women has been a prevalent issue throughout history. Societal expectations have left many women feeling insecure and dissatisfied. Current research has indicated that oftentimes negative body image is passed down from mother to daughter. While there is a variety of research on mother-daughter interactions with body...
- Keyword:
- mother, daughter, connotation, satisfaction, and body image
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Amy Fan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/10/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-05-28
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Sexual minority individuals are at increased risk for negative health outcomes relative to heterosexual individuals (Meyer, 2003), and accumulating evidence indicates experience the greatest burden (for a review, see Feinstein & Dyar, 2017). These health disparities are due, in large part, to stigma-related stressors (e.g., discrimination; Meyer), and bisexual individuals...
- Keyword:
- Stigma, Relationship, and Bisexuality
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Christina Dyar, Jeremy Jabbour, Brian A. Feinstein, and Joanne Davila
- Owner:
- Jeremy Thomas Jabbour
- Publisher:
- Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2020
- Date Modified:
- 01/14/2021